the new variant to see how rapidly it spreads and how effectively the vaccines operate, and it was stressed by officials that they do think vaccines will offer a degree of protection against people getting seriously ill and also ministers and officials want the expert committee to look at cutting the age at which you can get a booster and reducing the gap between the second dose and a boost itself, so they have bought themselves three weeks in effect by bringing in some restrictions. the uk has acted as fast as any other government in the world, the work is, to limit travellers coming into the uk from the affected areas, and also these tests that will have to be carried out on people arriving, but it is not the full term on and it doesn t involve advice about working from home and people in three weeks time if it gets worse than expected, they may look back and wonder why more was not done today? and wonder why more was not done toda ? a , and wonder why more was not done toda ? . let